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Is God Good?

Do people actually read the Bible? It is the most widely produced book in history, selling five billion copies over its centuries of existence. There is without a doubt an abundance of individuals who worship it's God without reading his book. In terms of the book's contents, there is little room to argue that the character/theme that centers the text and connects all of its parts is that of Yahweh. Truly, belief in this god is not only the focal point of this holy book but also the entirety of Judaism and Christianity. It is redundant to say that this specific deity has a truly monumental influence through its connection with this ancient work. Appropriately a very relevant question arises from leaving such a mark on the world: Is the God Yahweh, judging simply as a character from the Bible, a good or evil character? Surely any Christian or Jew or Muslim or Mormon would believe that this he is good. How wrong they are. How objectively wrong.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

IS GOD GOOD OR EVIL?

A DEBATE OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS

USING THE BIBLE

  • Not Islam, Hinduism, etc.
  • Old and New Testament
  • Reading Literally
  • Yahweh the Character

RIGHT and WRONG

  • Murder
  • Lying
  • Theft
  • Rape
  • Bigotry

HOW TO DEFINE GOD

  • Omnipotent
  • Omnipresent
  • All loving
  • Creator

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BUT

BUTT

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THE REAL COMMANDMENTS

  • Thou shalt worship no other god.
  • Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
  • Keep feast of unleavened bread.
  • Work six days, keep holy Sabbath
  • Observe the feast of weeks, firstfruits of wheat harvest, and ingathering at the year’s end.
  • Thrice a year shall all men children gather.
  • No blood of my sacrifice with leaven.
  • Celebrate Passover at night
  • Sacrifice the first crops to the LORD thy God.
  • Don't eat an animal and drink it's milk

THE SABBATH

  • Numbers 15:32
  • Man gathering sticks on the Sabbath
  • Tribesmen take him but don't know what to do
  • Moses and Aaron ask God
  • God sentences the man to be stoned

INCONSISTENT

  • Deuteronomy 6:16
  • You shall not put the LORD your God to the test, as you tested Him at Massah.
  • Malachi 3:10
  • Put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, and see if I do not open the floodgates of heaven for you

THE BAN

  • Peace
  • If the enemy allows you in their city you then enslave them
  • If they do not submit attack them (God will let you win)
  • When you win KILL EVERYTHING

Alexander The Great

11 YEARS

MOSES

40 YEARS

SLAVES

  • Fathers can sell daughters
  • You can kill slaves
  • Slaves can be owned forever
  • "Slaves, obey your masters."

THE WEAKER SEX

  • Women are twice as unclean
  • Women must have long hair and pray with veils
  • Women must be silent and not teach men
  • Women must be subordinate to their husbands
  • Jephthah

RAPE

  • Conquered women
  • Daughters sold
  • Virginity
  • Assault
  • Boy Prostitutes

JUDGES 19

  • Levite goes
  • Gibeah Mountain Elder
  • Scoundrels
  • Elder's daughter and concubine
  • All night
  • "Get up, let us be going."
  • Divided

HOMOPHOBIC

  • Homosexual love is an abomination
  • Subject to death penalty
  • No cross dressing
  • God makes nonbelievers gay AND lesbians

CHILDREN

  • Elisha
  • Baldy
  • She-Bears

INNOCENTS

  • Against the rocks
  • Ripped open

JOB

  • Obedient
  • Pious
  • Loyal
  • Punished for a bet
  • Reprimanded for asking questions

PHARAOH'S HEART

  • 6th Plague
  • Soot from a Kiln
  • Boils
  • Magicians give up
  • Pharaoh won't

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APOCALYPSE

  • Rapture
  • Locusts and scorpions
  • Abaddon and Angels
  • 5 Months of torture
  • 200 million horsemen
  • One Third of Humanity
  • Great Battle

HELL

  • Satan's punishment
  • Book of Life
  • Martyr's saved first, then believers
  • Second Death

A Necrocracy

"It's like a celestial North Korea. The son is a reincarnation of the father. It is the most revolting, and utter, and absolute, and heartless tyranny the human species has ever evolved. But at least you can
f#@&ing die and leave
North Korea."
-Christopher Hitchens

BAD MORALITY

  • Expecting reward
  • Would sin without God
  • No reward
  • Does good, Is good

GOD IS BAD

  • Genocidal
  • Bigoted
  • Sexist
  • Jealous
  • Deceptive
  • Manipulative
  • Illogical

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